Thomas Jefferson High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Port Arthur, TX)

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When All Else Failed We Always Resorted to It was the year of the president known as the Great Com- Sign La n gu a ge on .44- municatorf' Showtime on the cable was close cap- tioned for the hearing impaired. Song lyrics labels, thanks to the Parents' Music Resource Center, so your mother could decide lf they were harmful or not. New cars contained com- puters that told you when your door was ajaf. Menus were available in Braille. There were Hot Llnes for every problem: drug abuse, poison control, suicide, AIDS and even one If you needed to know where to put a comma. Blllboards got big- ger TV spots got louder and Pepsi put the first advertisement on a video cassette movie - TOPGUN. What we were doing was oommunlcatlng. Clothes are one way students express their views, their causes, and their way of life. The fashion was anything goes. John Blumstein - 12 says it all, lt depends on my mood that day. Sometimes it's a verbal abuse shin with a large tear on the left side or a shirt with either Man Man or Vlolent Pecificatlon. Still other times it's just a plain white shirt. You will rarely see me anywhere without a flannel shirt nearby. ws Pram 64 wma OZZY - Patrick McCorvey - ll rehearses for the BUTTON, BUTTON WHO HAS.THE BUTTON day when he will be standing before the screaming Scotty Flanagan - 12 shows proudly his collection crowds. Here he impersonates his favorite metal of buttons in and out of school. star. 22 , TUDENT IFE With James Cowan there's a different message My personality is conservative. so I dress conservative. Paul Fuseliefs - 12 favorite shirt is a python inside a triangle that he wears when he goes into one of his 20 year time warpsf' Some students prefer loveable cartoon characters such as Bullwinkle and Peewee Herman, favorites of Clayton Hearn - 12. But there are more ways than iust clothes to show the real you. There are the ever popular bumper stickers and window signs. Nearly everyone had a diamond shaped yellow tag sporting some witty saying such as Steph White's: Mafia Staff Car. Then there are the bumper stickers that say, Hit me, I need the money or I don't get mad, I get even. Some show school spirit, like the Swingster stickers. More common are decorated folders. Vicki Rackel - 12 does it because it gives me something to do or read during classes. Most folders sport slogans like, Ride to live, live to ride , Marcy loves Randy, or the names of favorite rock groups. Many students set themselves apart from the crowd by their nicknames. They pay T-shirts Plus to print names like David Robinson's, who's called Iceman, Franklin lthe Hangmanl Hamilton, Novis lCookieJ Wilson, Martin QM 8 Ml Mayon, Clarence lMaddogl Bennett, Shane lTurbol Saenez, Chad lSlopeyl Sartin, Brian lGusJ Guthrie. Tony iBuddhaJ Trahan, and Andrew lTreel Knight. Some of the names are weird but they tell you alittle about the wearer's personality. Whether it's tee-shirts, cars, bumper stickers, hats, folders. or buttons: students really know how to show their stuff through their own kind of sign language. X I i tc., 5 wud gl uosrpnp gap Aq Photo by Ward Scott THE GREAT THINKER - John Blumstein -- displays his graffittied tennis shoes while sitting in the courtyard imitating Plato'e The Great Thinker

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F fm wi' 1 RAGEDDY ANN JOINS THE HUSSARS - No it's just Laurie Porras - 12 dressed up for costume day and she didn't have time to change. NOW THAT'S DEDICATION - Scott Jackson - ll shows his true school spirit by having T. J. shaved in the back of his flat top. Everyone should have some pride in his own school. Losing give no reason about your school. You should be proud of Thomas Jefferson and sg. stick up for it when 'U :r ,g necessary. We win a lot Q and even when we 2, lose we do it in IQ: style and learn ' from it. Damon Polk - ll School without school spirit would be like being in a morgue for g, four years. A school needs spirit because it makes it interesting and a bit more fun to come to school. lt also helps our sports-teams when they need it. lt really helps boost morale. Having spirit sort of unifies the school, making us all pull together like a family in order to create a greater sense of spirit. Being a Hussar you need to have school spirit. Laurie Porras - 12 I 7 f rrzayq ounlza school spirit. School spirit makes you proud to be s part of Thomas Jefferson. School spirit puts enthusiasm into the student body. lt can even help athletes go that extra mile to win a game or run that hun- dred yards lust a few seconds faster to break that record. Even though l won't be here, l hope that school spirit will be even better next W I The school year was very exciting this year, with the help of year. Glen Mire THE FEAR LEADERS - Scott Jackson - ll, Donald Bescher - ll, Robert Chesson - ll, Albert Edmonson - ll show up the cheerleaders at the city wide pep rally the night before the homecoming game. TUDENT IFE 21

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E DID IT ALL - Erin Capello - 12 is ready to nce the night away at the Morp dance. lfully assed of coursel 1. A 1.54. I p . ,W V '11 It is very impor- E4 tant to dress -5 , Q neatly '-Q H, and look nice. It shows 3 tw' fi A A that you care about X f- yourself as a person and .- an - others will respect you P1 '-If , for it. Your appearance says a lot about the person that you are. Since your clothes are usually the first thing that people notice about you, it's necessary to always try to dress your best, because people tend to judge you by your out- ward appearance. Cynthia Pitre - ll .I ,,,- . -J, f la wr Ka 0:0114 052 ii ii H S- gu- we W' vp?- A. 1 l I if K lallkk I Sul Sf :ms PWM 'YQ 010114 A person com- municates by the clothes he wears. The ' ' message could be favorable 1he's probably a drug user or thiefl. Some people are not as attrac- tive as others because they wear dirty, torn clothes. While others are classified as rich and snotty or Preps. We stereotype people according to their appearance. Michelle Usey - ll - I QT' - aux ,Ny 5 . The different characteristics of people could easily be seen while strolling through transition. There is the simple shirt with the message, or different hair styles. Clothes can be decorated and are decorated a lot. Fausto Meza - 12 In I rn :- O C rn Us 3 rn '9 l fn Q 5. 'U eu 3 o : l 3 i Q I: 'E I. 9 sl sl ingly receives another love note. The only pro- blem is that no one seems to know who the notes are coming from. JACKET SPIRIT - Alena Hightower - 10, Jessica Larkins - 12, and Christi Robins - ll, hang a poster for the French Club during football season. HHH: aloud UWB 54 puaoum IND O0 TUDENT IFE